袖小咩

看了一下《西尔凡精灵的辛达王子》这篇，这是关于瑟爹和欧爷爷直接描述最多的一篇了，其实主要内容在网上都能搜到中文描述，不过看原文的感受还是直接多了。在这里提取几个我比较在意的细节。

1.在被从Moria流放的矮人到达和龙入侵之前，Thranduil的领地扩展到围绕孤山的森林，并沿着长湖的西岸增长。这个领地的精灵民族从南方迁居而来，与洛林精灵是同族和邻居；不过他们过去居住在Anduin河东方的大绿林。

这个矮人的到达和龙的入侵是什么时间？应该是在最后联盟之战之后，魔戒战争之前，还有哪里有线索吗？

2.欧爷爷在第二纪元向北撤退，远离格拉顿平原，他这么做是为了摆脱矮人的势力和蚕食，还有对盖奶夫妇的闯入感到愤恨（resent好激烈的用词）。但当时为止绿林和山脉间相互并没有畏惧，直到最后联盟之战（第二纪元3441年），他的人民和他们在河对岸的同族之间还有持续的交往。

当时似乎只是欧爷爷和他带领的辛达对盖奶夫妇有矛盾，民众之间并没有。

3.西尔凡精灵非常不希望干预其他精灵民族和其他种族的事情。组建军队参战是欧爷爷的意思，为了打败索伦重新获得和平。欧爷爷的王国当时人口众多，组建了一直强大的（great）军队，加入Lórien的Malgalad的军队。但其实欧爷爷的军队比Malgalad的还多。西尔凡很英勇善战，但是装备不行，也不服从Gil-galad的最高指挥，他们的损失原比需要的还要惨重。Malgalad和超过一半他带领的军队在Dagorlad战死，因为他们和主力切断并被驱逐到死亡沼泽。欧爷爷在第一次对魔多的袭击中战死，他冲在最前面，在Gil-galad给出前进的命令前就发动了攻击。 

这里明确说了Malgalad是Lórien的，而Gil-galad是诺多。表面上看欧爷爷有些咎由自取，但结合欧爷爷王国的辛达和西尔凡与诺多的不合，可以脑补很多联盟内部的斗争，甚至是阴谋论梗。如果有这类的文求推荐！如果西皮不雷的话_(:з」∠)_

4.最后联盟之战后有很长一段和平时期，西尔凡精灵数量增长，但仍感到不安和焦虑，因为他们感觉到了第三纪元世界的改变。后面叙述了人类人口和势力增长带来的影响，比如领地减小。另外是索伦势力的影响。这段最后就是经常被引用的，描述瑟爹心中恐惧的那段。

我脑补了密林的“集权”时期。

5.另外一段文章写，第三纪元1000年的时候，暗影降临绿林，Thranduil的领地在它蔓延到北方的时候撤退到森林东北部，挖了地下王宫。虽然他学了庭葛王在多瑞亚斯的先例，但是因为没有那么好的技艺也没有那么多钱也没有矮人的帮助，而且他的臣民也比多瑞亚斯的精灵粗苯，所以修得寒碜多了。

相比之下真是惨淡经营啊。

6.欧爷爷建国的时候带领的辛达很少（a handful of Sindar），并且他们很快与西尔凡融合，取了西尔凡形式和风格的名字。他们是故意这样做的，因为他们不希望离开中土，也不想和Beleriand的辛达合并而被诺多流亡者统治，因为多瑞亚斯的民族对这些流亡者并没有多少好感。他们希望成为西尔凡民族，回到，用他们的话来说，被维拉的邀请所打扰之前的简单自然的生活中去。

按我的理解，被欧爷爷带领的这些辛达追求的其实是自由主义。说到这里，维拉的邀请是否代表伊露维塔呢？让精灵回到阿门洲是维拉的意志还是伊露维塔的意志？以我个人的看法，这并不是伊露维塔的意志。等多看一些宝钻再讨论吧。

7.最后小托（书的整理者）说，这里搞清楚了密林的辛达统治者是怎样使用西尔凡语言的，和前面第三纪元末西尔凡语言停止使用联系了起来。

可是主动使用西尔凡语言的话消失的难道不应该是辛达语么？！这样的话这里说的就是只使用了形式和风格（form and style），最终使用的其实是“改良的”辛达语了。

原文如下

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Appendix B

The Sindarin Princes Of The Silvan Elves

In AppendixB to The Lord of the Rings, in the headnote to the Tale of Years of the SecondAge, it is said that "before the building of the Barad-dûr many of theSindar passed eastward, and some established realms in the forests far away,where their people were mostly Silvan Elves. Thranduil, long in the north ofGreenwood the Great, was one of these." 

Somethingmore of the history of these Sindarin princes of the Silvan Elves is found inmy father's late philological writings. Thus in one essay Thranduil's realm issaid to have extended into the woods surrounding the Lonely Mountain andgrowing along the west shores of the Long Lake, before the coming of theDwarves exiled from Moria and the invasion of the Dragon. The Elvish folk ofthis realm had migrated from the south, being the kin and neighbours of theElves of Lórien; but they had dwelt in Greenwood the Great east of Anduin. Inthe Second Age their king, Oropher [the father of Thranduil, father ofLegolas], had withdraw northward beyond the Gladden Fields. This he did to befree from the power and encroachments of the Dwarves of Moria, which had grownto be the greatest of the mansions of the Dwarves recorded in history; and alsohe resented the intrusions of Celeborn and Galadriel into Lórien. But as yetthere was little to fear between the Greenwood and the Mountains and there wasconstant intercourse between his people and their kin across the river, untilthe War of the Last Alliance. 

Despite thedesire of the Silvan Elves to meddle as little as might be in the affairs ofthe Noldor and Sindar, or of any other peoples, Dwarves, Men, or Orcs, Oropherhad the wisdom to foresee that peace would not return unless Sauron wasovercome. He therefore assembled a great army of his now numerous people, and joiningwith the lesser army of Malgalad of Lórien he led the host of the Silvan Elvesto battle. The Silvan Elves were hardy and valiant, but ill-equipped witharmour or weapons in comparison with the Eldar of the West; also they wereindependent, and not disposed to place themselves under the supreme command ofGil-galad. Their losses were thus more grievous than they need have been, evenin that terrible war. Malgalad and more than half his following perished in thegreat battle of the Dagorlad, being cut off from the main host and driven intothe Dead Marshes. Oropher was slain in the first assault upon Mordor, rushingforward at the head of his most doughty warriors before Gil-galad had given thesignal for the advance. Thranduil his son survived, but when the war ended andSauron was slain (as it seemed) he led back home barely a third of the armythat had marched to war. 

Malgalad ofLórien occurs nowhere else, and is not said here to be the father of Amroth. Onthe other hand, Amdír father of Amroth is twice (pp. 252 and 255 above) said tohave been slain in the Battle of Dagorlad, and it seems therefore that Malgaladcan be simply equated with Amdír. But which name replaced the other I cannotsay. This essay continues: 

A long peacefollowed in which the numbers of the Silvan Elves grew again; but they wereunquiet and anxious, feeling the change of the world that the Third Age wouldbring. Men also were increasing in numbers and in power. The dominion of theNúmenórean kings of Gondor was reaching out northwards towards the borders ofLórien and the Greenwood. The Free Men of the North (so called by the Elvesbecause they were not under the rule of Dúnedain, and had not for the most partbeen subjected by Sauron or his servants) were spreading southwards: mostlyeast of the Greenwood, though some were establishing themselves in the eaves ofthe forest and the grasslands of the Vales of Anduin. More ominous were rumoursfrom the further East: the Wild Men were restless. Former servants andworshippers of Sauron, they were released now from his tyranny, but not fromthe evil and darkness that he had set in their hearts. Cruel wars raged amongthem, from which some were withdrawing westward, with minds filled with hatred,regarding all that dwelt in the West as enemies to be slain and plundered. Butthere was in Thranduil's heart a still deeper shadow. He had seen the horror ofMordor and could not forget it. If ever he looked south its memory dimmed thelight of the Sun, and though he knew that it was now broken and deserted andunder the vigilance of the Kings of Men, fear spoke in his heart that it wasnot conquered for ever: it would arise again. 

In anotherpassage written at the same time as the foregoing it is said that when athousand years of the Third Age had passed and the Shadow fell upon Greenwoodthe Great, the Silvan Elves ruled by Thranduil retreated before it as it spreadever northward, until at last Thranduil established his realm in the north-eastof the forest and delved there a fortress and great halls underground. Oropherwas of Sindarin origin, and no doubt Thranduil his son was following theexample of King Thingol long before, in Doriath; though his halls were not tobe compared with Menegroth. He had not the arts nor wealth nor the aid of theDwarves; and compared with the Elves of Doriath his Silvan folk were rude andrustic. Oropher had come among them with only a handful of Sindar, and theywere soon merged with the Silvan Elves, adopting their language and takingnames of Silvan form and style. This they did deliberately; for they (and othersimilar adventurers forgotten in the legends or only briefly named) came fromDoriath after its ruin and had no desire to leave Middle-earth, nor to bemerged with the other Sindar of Beleriand, dominated by the Noldorin Exiles forwhom the folk of Doriath had no great love. They wished indeed to become Silvanfolk and to return, as they said, to the simple life natural to the Elvesbefore the invitation of the Valar had disturbed it. 

Nowhere (I believe)is it made clear how the adoption of the Silvan speech by the Sindarin rulersof the Silvan Elves of Mirkwood, as described here, is to be related to thestatement cited on p. 270 that by the end of the Third Age Silvan Elvish hadceased to be spoken in Thranduil's realm. 

See furthernote 14 to "The Disaster of the Gladden Fields," p. 293.